Learn about the Kainai Pow-wow and Rodeo at Standoff, Alberta; the Indian Summer World Film Festival at Pincher Creek, Alberta; and watch the film “Where the Spirit Lives” about the residential school experience, which premiered at the Indian Summer World Film Festival.
Read MoreRebecca Many Grey Horses presents an overview of Indigenous history in southern Alberta.
Read MoreThe Alberta Ranch Boys quickly became a popular act, touring British Columbia with their “cowboy swing” style.
Read MoreThe Anderson Sisters were passionate about their music and their stage presence. Every detail was meticulous, down to their matching uniforms and jewelry. Throughout the war, they supported community events, promoted war savings bonds, and even taught others how to become musicians themselves.
Read MoreDuring the Second World War, local big band groups played an energetic, swinging style of music that brought crowds to dance halls and joy to the community.
Read MoreIf you want other people to value your stuff, you have to put it at risk; if you can, put it into use so that the people visiting you in your home can associate it with you and they can associate themselves with it too.
Read MoreThe Galt School of Nursing was a key part of the work to create and maintain a sustainable primary care facility in Lethbridge in the first half of the 1900s.
Read MoreAs you are cleaning during this time of self-isolation, you may come across family photos, letters or other items that you want to donate to the Galt once we reopen. Here are two simple things that you can do while practicing physical distancing or isolating at home that can have a big impact on our ability to be good stewards of our collective past.
Read MoreWere you born in the Galt Hospital? What about your grandparents?
In 2010, Wendy Aitkens curated an exhibit about the history of the Galt Hospital, and we are now interviewing her about the content that she put together in that exhibit. In this video, Aitkens explains the construction of the different buildings that were part of the Galt Hospital from the late 1800s until 1955. From setting apart a "Sunbeam Ward" for children to treating polio patients in an iron lung, the Galt Hospital was the primary hospital in Lethbridge until the construction of the Municipal Hospital in 1955.
Read MoreIf you went to the fair at the exhibition grounds between the 1940s and the 1970s, you may have noticed a little white building with double barn-like doors with a painted sign above them that read Fire Hall. During the week of Lethbridge’s local fair, that little building located behind the grandstand became a substation for the fire department. The Lethbridge Fire Department had two firefighters stationed at the fairgrounds. They worked in shifts to provide 24-hour-per-day service for the four days of the fair.
Read MoreWho put the first dragon boat into Henderson Lake to spark an interest in the sport?
Read MoreWe get over a hundred calls a year form people interested in donating objects to the Galt Museum & Archives. The calls always start with a pitch about the objects. Usually, the first words uttered by the caller are “I’ve got an old-old-old thing…” and sometimes that is followed up with “…it’s museum quality.” But what is museum quality?
Read MoreAn important part of preserving a family's history is identifying people and places in our family photo albums. Join Archives Assistant Bobbie Fox to learn some of the best practices for recording vital information on *your* digital photographs.
Read MoreWhat makes a piece of clothing of interest to museums? It might not be what you expect!
Read MoreThe Lethbridge Herald reported in 1920 that O. R. Gould, a then newly-elected MP from Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, had proposed use of a poisonous gas, similar to chlorine gas used in the First World War, to exterminate grasshoppers in western Canada.
Read MoreOur Museum Educator introduces an activity that you can do at home to build a bridge with common items many of us have in our homes and presents the history of the bridge's construction.
Read MoreSince 1936, the Lethbridge art scene has flourished, in no small part, due to the presence of an enthusiastic art club. Artists in the club have created art, showed and sold their work, and taught others the skills to make their own art ever since.
Read MoreAs part of our ongoing Wednesday afternoon speaker series, join Museum Educator Rebecca to learn more about why Alberta is one of the few places on the planet that has no Norway rats and how that came to be. Please share your rat encounters in the comments below!
Read MoreAn important part of preserving a family's history is identifying people and places in our family photo albums. Join Bobbie Fox to learn some of the best practices for recording vital information on *your* photographs so people can know answers to the questions "Who's that?" and its related questions "Where's that?" and "When's that?"
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Over the past several years we have received several items from the family of Edward Buchanan related to his time as a Staff Sergeant with the RCMP in Lethbridge. One of those items was a section of thick rope that his son Ted tells us was used in the penultimate execution by hanging carried out in Lethbridge in the late 1940s. Ted attended the hanging, and his father acted as the executioner.
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